Wednesday, August 04, 2004

An Interview With Ron Mwangaguhunga

I get "What's your story" emails all the time so:

The Controversial Ron Mwangaguhunga Interview. No-no-notorious. (I got so much hate mail the first time I published this, calling me everything from "arrogant," "snobbish," and "stuck up the asses of New York hipster bloggers." It stung, true believer, but you have to be able to take it if you can dish it out, I say. Since I am such the snarky sadist, let's see what happens now, 6 months afterwards, with some of my notes added)

9 comments:

starzstylista said...

Umm, umm Herodotus was cheesy celebrity gossip(and the 80s ended when Sid Vicious died). Otherwise a most excellent interview.

starzstylista said...

My favorite part of St. Elmo's fire: Demi Moore freezing her tits off in her crazy "loft" apartment. I could have watched that 20 more minutes.

The Corsair said...

Thanks, La, for the always clever comments. I guess the End of 80s question is subjective. For Coco, it was the moment in Fame when she had to do those photos. I loved that part with Demi Moore trying to freeze herself to death. Best line--"I'm so tired, Billy,I'm 23 and I'm so tired" and then the sax solo as Rob Lowe hugs her and says, "I know." Cry me a river, Demi Moore.

The Corsair said...

Herodotus would be sooo Star Magazine if her were alive today, with that salacious story of Candaules, King of Sardis and his saucy wife.

starzstylista said...

Yes H. has it all over that tedious Thucydides: Pericles , Pericles, Pericles -- ugh.

The Corsair said...

Yeah, sorry about that. Blogger automatically goes to italics if a post is too long. That wasn't my doing, but thanks for reading.

cheers,
R

Anonymous said...

Ron, I didn't think your interview was anything but confident and very interesting-- anyone who saw arrogance was seeing something of their own reflection, not yours. I resonated with so much that you wrote about-- especially St. John's where I spent one of the best summers of my life (for a Bread Loaf workshop they held there) and your definition of yourself as not crazy. I've never been a big fan of Bergman but your description of why he affects you so deeply has me thinking of going back and checking him out again. Great interview-- thanks for sharing--- all the best, blue poppy http://bluepoppy.omworks.com

The Corsair said...

Thanks bluepoppy, the second time around definitely got better feedback than the first time I ran this. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Let's hope that means the snarky types have moved on to torture other bloggers and you are left with kinder gentler (though no less literate) readers-- *smile*-- bluepoppy